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Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales ~ 9th Edition

by: Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr
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080361179X  9780803611795  9781423707622 

Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales (Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions & Rationales)
By Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr




Product Description:

Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Colorado Springs. Pocket-sized reference offers the latest revised nursing diagnoses through the NANDA conference. Each diagnosis features related factors, defining characteristics, desired outcomes, interventions, and documentation. Interventions include rationales. Previous edition: c2002. Softcover.


Synopsis

Make sure your students use the best pocket guide to plan patient care! This handy pocket guide helps nursing students identify interventions most commonly associated with nursing diagnoses when caring for patients. It's the perfect resource for hospital and community-based settings.

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Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Lisa M. Kelley, RN, MS(Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing)
Description:This book is designed to guide the practicing nurse or nursing student in selecting and implementing nursing interventions. It uses NANDA nursing diagnoses as the link between the medical diagnoses and the appropriate nursing response.
Purpose:The purpose is to guide clinical nursing practice from assessment through documentation. The authors state the need for a uniform language between nurses, as nurses today may pre care to the same patient in a variety of healthcare settings. Additionally, nursing diagnoses put into words what nurses do and connect it to patient well-being and survival. While no one would argue the need for consistency of care and the importance of the role nurses play in the care of the sick, this can be accomplished without the creation of a new way of communicating, such as the advent of the nursing diagnosis nearly 25 years ago.
Audience:According to the authors, the book is written for the practicing nurse or nursing student. I think the book may be most useful to the nursing student and hospital-based registered nurse, as nursing diagnosis-based care planning and documentation is required in most schools of nursing and in some hospitals, but is used on a limited basis in other practice settings.
Features:The book pres a suggested format for patient assessment in four different settings (medical/surgical, psychiatric, prenatal, and intranatal) following nursing diagnosis taxonomy and using subjective/objective data categorization. It also pres suggestions for nursing interventions for eachidentified nursing diagnosis. Particularly useful is an alphabetized index that lists medical diagnoses with the corresponding nursing diagnoses. The book has utility in many settings that use nursing diagnoses as the basis for pring care, as it addresses both NANDA and Gordon's Taxonomies as well as NIC/NOC. The suggested format for patient assessment is lengthy and cumbersome and it is difficult to imagine a nurse actually having the time to implement it. The book seems to be limited to use by the hospital or academia-based nurse or nursing student. Additionally, it is somewhat complicated to use, and seems to duplicate NIC/NOC and many nursing diagnosis handbooks.
Assessment:The authors have written an exhaustive book on the ins and outs of nursing diagnosis identification and application. Given the ubiquity of other primary texts of nursing diagnoses (Gordon, NIC/NOC, etc.), I find it hard to imagine needing this one as well, as it appears to serve no unique purpose. Previous editions of this book have come in spiral-bound format, which makes it easier to use.



Summary: Nurse's Pocket Guide
Rating: 5

This book sure did save my butt doing paperwork for nursing clinicals! Great book @ an excellent price.



Summary: Excellent reference tool
Rating: 5

An excellent tool for writing care plans in school. Very helpful guide with lots of information.



Summary: Love this lil book
Rating: 5

This book is a must for nursing students!!! I got 100% on my care plan



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Rating: 1

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Summary: Wow! This book is great!
Rating: 5

This book has been so helpful! I am a nursing student and this is very helpful on my case study assignments and also in writing care plans. Everyone always wants to use this book when we break up into groups. It gives a nursing diagnosis, goals & interventions. It also has standard nursing Dx that apply to medical Dx. It's pretty small (maybe 10" x 8") and fits easily in a tote bag when I go to my clinical sites. Overall great book!